Launch the Music app from your Home screen. Go to the song, album or playlist you want to download. Tap the More button (looks like.) to the right of the music. Tap on Make Available Offline. This means in the future, users will still be able to listen to music with the new Apple Music app for Mac. Is It Necessary to Backup Apple Music on Mac? The answer is yes. There is a small caveat that this app maybe not be compatible with the old Mac system such as EICaptitan 10.11, Yosemite 10.10, Mavericks 10.9, Mountain Lion 10.8.
At the moment when you subscribe Apple Music streaming service, you should be clear about the restrictions of Apple Music, such as you can only access to the streaming music from devices registered with your Apple Music account, the tracks would become unplayable after cancelling the subscription, and the most annoying limit - you are not allowed to transfer the downloaded songs from Apple Music to USB or other players. So what if you want to copy the Apple Music songs to play in your car radio using USB flash drive? Don't worry. This article will guide you to easily transfer songs and playlists from Apple Music to USB stick in a few clicks only.
Copying Apple Music Tracks to USB: Tools & Requirements
Tool Needed to Completely Remove DRM from Apple Music Streams
Have you ever thought about the reason why you can't upload the Apple Music tracks to USB or other devices? In fact, you are prevented from copying Apple Music songs to USB drive and other media devices because all the music tracks in Apple Music are protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM technology. The most important thing to make Apple Music songs recognized by USB drive is to find a tool to crack the DRM completely from the protected music streams. Here comes the rescue, TunesKit Apple Music Converter/TunesKit Apple Music Converter for Mac, a smart DRM Apple Music converter that is designed to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert the music tracks from DRM-ed M4P to common MP3, AAC, WAV, M4A, M4B and other audio formats with original CD quality preserved.
- Download and install the free version of Apple Music Converter on Mac or PC
- Make sure the latest version of iTunes is installed on your computer
- Prepare an USB flash drive to copy the Apple Music tracks
- Log into your Apple Music subscription via iTunes on computer
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Move Apple Music Songs to USB Drive in 3 Steps only
Step 1. Download Songs from Apple Music for Offline Listening
Open iTunes, go to 'For You' or 'New' tab where you can find the entire Apple Music category sorted by artists, albums, playlists and songs. Once selected a song, album, or playlist that you want to transfer to USB drive,click the '...' icon next to the song or album name to add the songs to 'My Music' or 'Playlist'. When the songs are added to your music library, go to 'My Music' tab to find the music file and click the cloud icon with a downward arrow to download the song so that you can play it offline.
Step 2. Convert DRM-encrypted Apple Music Songs to MP3
Since the downloaded Apple Music tracks are in protected .M4P format that is not supported by USB stick, you should get rid of the DRM encryption from the Apple Music songs as well as convert the offline M4P tracks to common MP3 with TunesKit DRM Apple Music Converter. Now follow the complete guide here to begin converting the DRM-ed Apple Music to MP3 with ease.
1Add Apple Music offline songs to Apple Music Converter
Launch TunesKit Apple Music Converter and click the 'Add Files' button to load the Apple Music M4P songs from iTunes music library. You can also add the music via drag-and-drop.
2Adjust output format and other settings
When the Apple Music songs are imported successfully to TunesKit Apple Music Converter, you are allowed to select the output format as MP3 or others. Currently the available outputs are MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, M4A, and M4B. You should click the 'gear' icon next to the music title to select the target output format. Besides, you can also set the output folder for the converted songs by clicking 'Output' drop-down list.
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3Convert DRM Apple Music to MP3
Now you can click 'Convert' button to start converting the DRM-protected Apple Music files to MP3 or other formats. Usually it will convert the music songs at 30X faster speed.
Step 3. Sync Converted Apple Music Tracks to USB Flash Drive
Once the conversion completes, all music you saved offline from Apple Music are DRM-free. Now you are free to transfer the converted music tracks to USB flash drive for playing in your car or anywhere else.
Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of TunesKit who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.
Apple Music is a well-known streaming music service, for which we are limited to listen toApple Music with iTunes or its’ App and unable to download any songs from Apple Music, whose alleged “offline” listening are only temporarily saved on the cloud for its’ subscribers. Once the subscription is cancelled, we won’t have any access to the Apple Music that we used to listening to. This tutorial is going to introduce you a good way to download Apple Music to the local file on your Mac so that you can keep listening to Apple Music even if you cancel the subscription.
Apple Music can’t be downloaded because they are protected. As long as we can record those songs, we can download whatever we want from Apple Music. Next we are going to introduce a popular Apple Music downloader – NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter for Mac and guide you on how to download Apple Music on your Mac computer step by step.
Tool Required: NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter
NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter is a combination of Apple Music Converter, Audiobook Converter and iTunes M4P Audio Converter. This all-in-one program helps music lovers to easily download Apple Music, audiobooks & iTunes M4P music and save them to local files on Mac, which attracts increasing fans year by year.
Features of iTunes Audio Converter:
- Record iTunes music, audiobooks, Apple Music;
- Convert Apple Music files to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV;
- Convert iTunes audio at 10X faster speed with lossless quality;
- Keep ID3 Tags information after conversion;
- Support macOS 10.15 Catalina & iTunes 12.10;
- Enjoy free update & technical support.